OLIVER, GEORGE. _b._ Newington, Butts, Surrey 9 Feb. 1781;
educ. Sedgley park, Staffs. and Stonyhurst college 11 years;
ordained at Durham May 1806; served the mission of the society
of Jesus at St. Nicholas, Exeter Oct. 1807 to 6 Oct. 1851, but
never became a member of the society; hon. member of Historical
society of Boston 30 March 1843; created D.D. by Pope Gregory
XVI 15 Sept. 1844; provost of the chapter of Plymouth 1852–7;
author of Historic collections relating to the monasteries
in Devon 1820; The history of Exeter 1821, 2 ed. 1861;
Ecclesiastical antiquities in Devon, 3 vols. 1840–2; Collections
towards illustrating the biography of the Scotch, English and
Irish members of the society of Jesus 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Merrye
Englaunde or the golden daies of goode queene Besse 1841,
anon.; Monasticon diœcesis Exoniensis, a collection of records
illustrating conventual, collegiate and eleemosynary foundations
in the counties of Cornwall and Devon and a supplement 1846,
additional supplement 1854; Collections illustrative of the
history of the Catholic religion in the counties of Cornwall,
Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts. and Gloucester 1857; Lives of
the bishops of Exeter and a history of the cathedral 1861. _d._
St. Nicholas priory, Exeter 23 March 1861. _bur._ near the high
altar in the chapel 2 April. _T. N. Brushfield’s Bibliography
of the rev. G. Oliver_ (1885) _portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub. i_ 410 (1874); _G.M. x_ 575–7 (1861).
OLIVER, GEORGE (eld. son of Samuel Oliver, R. of Lambley,
Notts.). _b._ Papplewick, Notts. 5 Nov. 1782; educ. Nottingham;
second master of gr. sch. at Caistor, Lincs. 1803–9; head master
of Great Grimsby gr. sch. 1809; C. of Grimsby 1814–32; V. of
Clee, Lincs. 1815–35; V. of Scopwick, Lincs. 12 Oct. 1831 to
death; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1834–46; created D.D.
by archbishop of Canterbury 25 July 1835; R. of South Hyckham,
Lincs. 1846 to death; deputy past grand master of masons for
Lincolnshire 1832; author of The antiquities of freemasonry
1823 and 1843; The star in the east 1825, new ed. 1842; The
monumental antiquities of Great Grimsby, Hull, 1825; The history
and antiquities of the Town and minster of Beverley 1829;
History of the Holy Trinity guild at Sleaford, Lincoln 1837;
Historical landmarks and other evidences of freemasonry, 2 vols.
1845–6; The golden remains of the early masonic writers, 5 vols.
1847–50; The book of the lodge or officer’s manual 1849, 4 ed.